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• Patch Alert: Where we stand with September’s Windows and Office patches

  Posted on September 26, 2017 at 06:52 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  It ain’t a pretty sight.

  Any updates, folks?

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  Office Patches/Security, Windows Patches/Security KB 4011086, KB 4011089, KB 4011090, KB 4011091, KB 4011110, KB 4036586, KB 4038777, KB 4038782, KB 4038788, KB 4038792, KB 4038801, KB 4039473, KB 4040724, KB 4043361, KB 4043601, September 2017 Black Tuesday

• Remember how this month’s Outlook security patches broke VBScript printing?

  Posted on September 19, 2017 at 07:56 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Ends up it was a feature, not a bug.

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  Tweet from @JBar3000:

  KB4011089 also breaks archived mail in Outlook 2010. You can only see a portion of the message and the link to see the rest doesn’t work.

  Office Patches/Security KB 4011086, KB 4011089, KB 4011090, KB 4011091, VBScript

• Outlook 2007 and 2010 security patches scramble languages, break printing on custom forms

  Posted on September 15, 2017 at 06:00 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Both Outlook 2007 and 2010 security patches for September have been implicated in switching languages — Swedish menus in the Hungarian version, for example. Outlook 2010’s patch has the additional distinction of breaking custom form print function.

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  Office Patches/Security KB 4011086, KB 4011089, September 2017 Black Tuesday